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  • Beyond the Veil by Quinn Loftis

    Beyond the Veil by Quinn Loftis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Though the Serbian pack has been brought to heel thanks to the downfall of their Alpha, the war is far from over.Desdemona, a witch of unfathomable power, has escaped the wolves’ wrath, but she will not go quietly into the night. She takes refuge in a place where even the smallest sliver of light does not dare to enter...
  • My One and Only by Alanea Alder

    My One and Only by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Micah has spent so many centuries hiding who he is that he’s forgotten how to be himself, and despite always being there for others, he finds it impossible to ask for help. As weeks of sleepless nights catch up with him, he faces the fact that he needs his unit brothers no more than ever. Living in Storm Keep with mixed blood, Serenity fought for everything she has...
  • Slade by Teresa Gabelman

    Slade by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Highly trained VC Warrior, Dr. Slade Buchanan’s, role between lifesaver and lifetaker has been a constant battle, but nothing prepared him for half-breed VC Warrior trainee, Jill Nichols. Slade realizes his struggles from the past were nothing compared to the difficulty of resisting the woman who could never belong to a man like him...
  • My Champion by Alanea Alder

    My Champion by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Declan Lionhart has been running interference between the Founding Families and the citizens of Noctem Falls since the day he arrived in the city. His hopes of being a simple unit warrior crumbles in the face of their troubles and it looks like he will always be bound by his family’s political legacy...
  • Dark Wolf by Christine Feehan, Phil Gigante

    Dark Wolf by Christine Feehan, Phil Gigante

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In Dark Lycan, Christine Feehan journeyed into the heart of the Carpathians, and into the souls of two lifemates stirred by the flush of passion and the threat of annihilation. In Dark Wolf, the breathtaking story continues as the bonds of family are imperiled, and the fate of two lovers lies hidden in the seductive shadows between life and death...
  • My Angel by Alanea Alder

    My Angel by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Vivian Mercy has been running from the past for so long she doesn’t know any other way of life. When a panicked call comes from one of her only friends she finds herself returning to the city of her nightmares where her dedication as a doctor and resolve to help others is put to the test. Etain Vi’Aerlin has been watching over Noctem Falls for centuries...
  • Blaze by Teresa Gabelman

    Blaze by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Haunted by a past he’s struggling to forget, Blaze once again finds himself a VC Warrior - something he swore would never happen. Confident he could easily walk away again, his connection to a certain redhead makes that decision harder than he imagined. Trying to fit into the Warrior world, Katrina holds a secret that could ruin the new life she is fighting to fit into...
  • My Guardian by Alanea Alder

    My Guardian by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The next chapter in the Bewitched and Bewildered series is about to begin. Meryn and Beth have been summoned by Beth’s uncle and council elder, Magnus Rioux to the vampire’s pillar city of Noctem Falls. Meryn in a city of vampires, what could go wrong? Aiden and Gavriel are about to find out. Eva Mae Miller has been around for a long time...
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  • Viktor by Teresa Gabelman

    Viktor by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After having his life shattered by the woman who held his heart, Viktor Valentino put work before everything. Many years later, learning the truth behind his lover's deceit, his anger shifts to the man responsible for not only her betrayal but her gruesome death. Viktor throws himself into finding him to not only appease his rage but to possibly save humanity...
  • My Warrior by Alanea Alder

    My Warrior by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ari Lionhart is the youngest warrior in Èire Danu, yet despite his lack of years, he is trusted by the queen’s consort Brennus to act as the unit leader for every unit in the fae city. He works hard at balancing his life between being a unit warrior and being a Lionhart, and secretly fears he is failing at both...
  • My Healer by Alanea Alder

    My Healer by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Fun loving wolf-shifter Colton Albright’s usual concern…his next meal, has been replaced by haunted dreams. The nightly visions of the sad, anxious face of his mate have this jovial jokester withdrawing from his fellow Alpha Unit members.Rheia Bradley is a dedicated professional that lives to help others, but has long forgotten how to help herself...
  • Addict by Lexi Blake

    Addict by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In order to destroy a legendary monster and save the royal family, Kelsey must make a deal with a devil…When Kelsey Owens returns home to Dallas, she is a changed woman. After months of training with Marcus Vorenus , she has more control over her abilities. She’s ready to start her new job, even if it means dealing with the King of All Vampire and his partner, Devinshea Quinn...
  • Hold Steady by T.S. Joyce

    Hold Steady by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A legend is in the making.Don’t miss Grey and Morgan’s continued story in the second installment of T. S. Joyce’s Becoming the Wolf series.Morgan Crawford has everything made. A great man, thriving business, sweet niece, and a pack of growly new friends. Life is good but as a newly Turned werewolf, she has no idea what she’s in for as her new world discovers she is a one-of-a-kind Silver Wolf...
  • Tiger Striped by Jennifer Ashley

    Tiger Striped by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tiger … The call I must answer … I wake in the night, knowing something is wrong. Carly, mate of my heart, is next to me, and I hear my son’s breathing. They are safe. But someone, someone cries out with a despair I can’t ignore ... Carly won’t let me go alone, and neither will Connor, the cub who will become one of the greatest Shifters of us all—I know this. I see. I can’t ignore the call...
  • Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wanted: Bride. Must love children. Mortals need not apply.Carlos Panterra is looking for a mate, a woman who will love and care for the young orphans he's recently taken under his wing (or paw, as the case may be). When the shape shifter spies the beautiful Caitlyn, it's like sunshine amidst the darkness. At last, he's found the perfect woman, except...Caitlyn Whelan is mortal...
  • Eventide of the Bear by Cherise Sinclair, Noah Michael Levine

    Eventide of the Bear by Cherise Sinclair, Noah Michael Levine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She risked her life to save a human child. Pain was her reward.All her life, Emma longed for someone to love. Instead, disaster sees the brand-new bard banished from her people for long lonely years. Injured saving a child, the werebear has to steal food from humans, breaking shifter Law. The territory’s Cosantir and his lethal grizzly warrior catch her in the act...
  • Winter's Promise by Julie Trettel, Joe Hempel

    Winter's Promise by Julie Trettel, Joe Hempel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ember “Emmy” Kenston was raised in the spotlight when all she wanted was to be invisible. A self-proclaimed book nerd, she must live up to the expectations of being the daughter of one of Hollywood’s biggest actresses...
  • Tiger's Daughter by Jennifer Ashley

    Tiger's Daughter by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The mate bond has never been this strong ...Connor Morrissey hits his Transition—hard—and Shiftertown braces for chaos. His transformation into a fully adult Shifter comes early and is lightning fast, heightened by Connor’s very special heritage. Connor spirals out of control, ready to fight for his place in the hierarchy, and his instincts tell him his place is very high...
  • Moonlight by Victoria Danann

    Moonlight by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The story continues to touch on the lives of former B Team members and their families while new characters and situations are introduced.THE NEWSLETTER: Ram and Elora move into temporary quarters at Jefferson Unit to protect mother and baby. Storm gives a surprising answer when he’s tapped by Sol to replace him as Jefferson Unit Sovereign. Litha solicits her father to help Black Swan...
  • Leopard's Blood by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Blood by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan cuts straight to the heart of a man who stalks the shadows in an intoxicating Leopard novel.Though born into a leopard’s lair in the bayou, Joshua Tregre’s fighting skills were honed in the rainforests of Borneo. Sleek and deadly, he’s the perfect man to take over a crime syndicate back home in Louisiana’s lush swamplands...
  • Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She wasn’t ready to lead...Chosen as the Guardian of her Montana Shiftertown, wolf Shifter Rae Lyall is facing opposition—for no woman has ever been selected for this powerful position. Still adjusting to the new authority thrust upon her, Rae travels to train with Zander Moncrieff, a Shifter healer, tasked with teaching her about her new role and its responsibilities.He wasn’t ready to love..
  • Novak Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Novak Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Daughter of Beaston is hurting. Remington Novak is stuck in a city, her whole life altered for a man who didn’t keep her. A life change comes in many forms, but for Remi, it comes as a newspaper clipping, sent by her best friend. A Last Chance Crew up in the mountains is looking for help, and her skillset matches the requirements. Must like animals? She was a grizzly shifter...
  • Journey Man by Victoria Danann

    Journey Man by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "A roving knight. A runaway girl. Makes for one outstanding story!"- Night Owl Reviews If you love paranormal romance, you cannot miss the newest addition to the winner of Best Paranormal Romance Series four years in a row.For five years Glendennon Catch had knocked around the globe as a floater, filling in wherever a team of vampire hunters was down a member...
  • A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You, Sylvia Day, draws us into the shadows of a seductive underworld where lycans, vampires and angels vie for supremacy…Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality...
  • Betrayed: Days of the Rogue by Nicky Charles

    Betrayed: Days of the Rogue by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His mate killed in a horrific explosion, ex-Enforcer Damien Masterson now lives as a rogue werewolf...
  • Tiger Magic by Jennifer Ashley

    Tiger Magic by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    He was once a captive, but his urges were never caged. Now he’ll release them on a beautiful stranger whose own secret desires are longing to be sated…He doesn’t have a name. He doesn’t have a clan. The humans who held him prisoner for forty years have taken them away. He knew nothing but captivity until nearly a year ago, when he was released into the light...
  • Dark Predator by Christine Feehan

    Dark Predator by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    All New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended...
  • Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reno’s a tough Enforcer for Lycan Link who finds himself drawn to Brandi but duty rules his life. Brandi, just on the edge of starting her career as a Disaster Control officer, falls for Reno at first sight, but are they really meant to be? Is it love or lust and does it really even matter? Enforcers and DCs don't get along...unless fate forces them to. Bonded precedes The Mating...
  • The Keeping by Nicky Charles

    The Keeping by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ryne Taylor was a sexy bad-ass Alpha set on establishing a new pack. Melody Greene was a journalism student researching his work as a photographer—or so she said...
  • Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Shards of Frost by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When had life stopped being so simple? Probably around the time that Casey Frost first agreed to pay off her drug addict brother’s debt to save him from a brutal beating. It soon became a “thing.” When the dealer—who’s also an Alpha shifter—demands she do something that goes against her very being, Casey decides enough is enough...
  • Vincent by D.B. Reynolds

    Vincent by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sinaloa, Mexico . . . haunting deserts, hot nights, and vampires, who’ve been there for hundreds of years, watching from the shadows, playing their games, manipulating humans, and surviving at any cost. Vincent Kuxim, powerful and charismatic, was made vampire by an ambitious leader looking for soldiers to pave his way to the rule of all Mexico...
  • Wolf Quest by Bianca D'Arc

    Wolf Quest by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love and magic lie at the heart of this storm…as well as a whole lot of danger. When Major Jesse Moore, brother to the Wyoming Pack Alpha, is sent to Iowa to check on his sister-in-law’s cousin, knocking politely isn’t an option. Sounds of a struggle send him storming into her kitchen—where he finds anything but a damsel in distress...
  • Guardian of Darkness by Katie Reus, Jeffrey Kafer

    Guardian of Darkness by Katie Reus, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He saw her die in a vision… Before five years ago, Gabriel had never met Vega, but he knows how she's going to die. He knows he'll be involved... unless he can make sure they never meet, never cross paths, so that his vision will never come true. So he left his pack behind, joined the Stavros pack and was determined to never let that future play out. To never meet her at all...
  • Dark Alpha’s Demand by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha’s Demand by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I am coming for you...My secret is an ancient one. I exist to exact vengeance on the Fae for their wrongs per Death's orders...
  • Oh, My Dragon by Lani Lynn Vale

    Oh, My Dragon by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The reclusive Ian barely participates in life, only doing so when his powers demand that he use them or pay the consequences. It seems that there’s not a single person on this planet who doesn’t want something from him, but the pain and suffering of others is nearly unbearable at times, leaving him no choice but to act...
  • Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a world of shadows, desire conquers all…Tall, dark, and formidable, Niol Lapen is the last demon on earth most people would ask for a favor, yet the sexy little reporter who wanders into his club dares to do exactly that. Holly Storm already knows too much about his kind, and Niol has no wish to help her get in deeper over her head...
  • Here Kitty, Kitty! by Shelly Laurenston

    Here Kitty, Kitty! by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    What do you do when you’ve got a hillbilly tiger by the tail? Or maybe the question should be: what wouldn’t you do…Nikolai Vorislav likes his single life just as it is. Simple, relaxing and quiet. What he doesn’t need is some foul-mouthed Texan hellcat living in his house, eating his food, flirting with his idiot brothers and shooting holes in his home with his granddaddy’s gun...
  • Rule Breaker: A Novel of the Breeds by Lora Leigh, Brianna Bronte

    Rule Breaker: A Novel of the Breeds by Lora Leigh, Brianna Bronte

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lion Breed, Rule Breaker had just a few rules he didn't break. Not for anything. Not for anyone.#1. Never have sex with a woman outside his own subspecies, especially a human woman.#2. Never, at any time, accept a mission concerning a female when Jonas Wyatt stinks of a lie.#3. Run don't walk, skip or stumble...
  • Bloodrunner Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Bloodrunner Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    **Brand new standalone series from T. S. Joyce. Don’t miss the thrilling first book in Harper’s Mountains.** Harper Keller is a shifter on borrowed time. After failing to find her treasure, her inner dragon is desperate to find anything to connect with. When a plea for help comes through from an old flame, she puts her life on hold to track him down...
  • Fury of Desire by Coreene Callahan

    Fury of Desire by Coreene Callahan

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dragonfury series, book 4.No warrior of the Nightfury pack is more complicated or damaged than Wick. Scarred from a childhood of slavery and torture, Wick cannot bear the touch of another person. But all bets are off when he meets J.J. Solares. When she is unjustly imprisoned, Wick agrees to help rescue and keep her from harm...
  • Wild Rain by Christine Feehan

    Wild Rain by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rainforest, she’s found sanctuary. But in this world teeming with unusual creatures walks the most exotic of them all. His name is Rio...
  • Elijah by Jacquelyn Frank

    Elijah by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    They are called the Demons, one of the elusive Nightwalker races living in shadow and struggling for survival against their human enemies. Their proudest warrior is Elijah, a man who bends for nothing and no one...until one woman brings him to his knees... Some Feelings You Just Can't Fight He is known as the Warrior Captain--a master of every weapon, a fierce soldier sworn to protect his kind...
  • Fae for All by Lisa Oliver

    Fae for All by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 6 The Cloverleah Pack Can be read as a standalone Jax Cooper never planned to meet his mates. A strong wolf shifter, who keeps his Fae heritage hidden, all Jax wants to do is keep his pack safe and his secrets tucked away. But when men turn up from another pack, all intent on stealing the two men Jax knows to be his, then Jax's wolf has a hard time controlling himself...
  • Beware the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Beware the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The enemy may have changed, but the battle between good and evil burns hotter than ever in this scintillating new installment in Alexandra Ivy’s Guardians of Eternity series.   There is only one thing more precious to vampire Tarak than his newfound freedom after five centuries of captivity, and that’s the promise of revenge...
  • Denying Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Denying Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rain’s nights have been restless, filled with sensual dreams of a big blonde Immortal whose glares indicate he wants nothing to do with her. She is determined to shake off her growing obsession until she finds out her dream lover is responsible for her rescue from a demented Demi-God...
  • King's Throne by Bianca D'Arc

    King's Throne by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A woman living in secret, hiding her true nature...Gina is a medical doctor living in the city. What nobody knows is that she’s also tiger-shifter royalty, living in exile. Keeping her secret has kept her safe, but all that is about to change.An injured soldier who heals in a way that makes him more than he ever was before...Mitch is injured. Out of the action...
  • When No Doesn't Cut It by Lisa Oliver

    When No Doesn't Cut It by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scott Peterson, beta wolf in the Cloverleah Pack, has a good life. He loves his cars, riding his Harley, and going out with pack members and friends. But when an attack on his pack by a bear shifter, brings his mate into his world, from Texas of all places, Scott realizes he could lose everything he ever held dear...
  • Dark Surrender by Rachel Van Dyken, Hollie Jackson

    Dark Surrender by Rachel Van Dyken, Hollie Jackson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I grew up as a prince...And lead the life of a King.There isn't anyone or anything that doesn't want me, that isn't attracted to me. They can't help it. And I sure as hell don't want them to. I live for their lust, I crave touch like an addiction, I make them beg on their knees for one, simple, caress.As a male siren it's my job to feed off emotion.And I was happy to do it.I am happy to do it...
  • Bad Wolf by Jennifer Ashley

    Bad Wolf by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wolf Shifter Broderick is stuck looking after his three younger brothers and a Collar-less Shifter who is driving him crazy, but he’s putting up with it for Joanne, the human woman he, for some reason, wants to impress. Joanne Greene, while grateful to Broderick for rescuing her sister, doesn’t know what to make of him...
  • Red Wolf by Jennifer Ashley

    Red Wolf by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Guardian’s Mate returns to the world of the Shifters and a tale of a new love under fire...Lupine Shifter Dimitri has always had to defend himself to other Shifters. As a red wolf, he’s not considered a “pure” wolf, and the battles have honed him into a tough fighter, a champion of the fight clubs...
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